ready for tomorrow

It's comming the Party of Magdalena de Cao, home of the Señora de Cao, a mummy found recently.

Papa a la Huancaina

"Papa a la Huancaina" is a peruvian salad of boiled yellow potatoes in a spicy, starchy peanut sauce, called Huancaina sauce, thus the origin of the name. Huancaina sauce is made of fresh white cheesecrushed peanuts crushed saltines, vegetable oil, aji amarillo (yellow Peruvian pepper) evaporated milk, garlic and salt, mixed in a blender.

This dish is served with lettuce, black olives, white corn kernels, hard boiled egg quarters and tomatoes. It's very popular in all the country and can be served as a starter or "small dish.

Draft Flowers

Selling fresh flowers is the best, but it's interesting when you see draft flowers and plants painted in different colors.

one of seven wonder of the world :)

Machu Picchu!... some of cusco in past posts (1) (2) (3) (4)

If you come to Peru, you must go to Cusco, but don't forget to come to north of Peru too, specially to Trujillo :)

Red or blue

Since January, Trujillo have a new major, he likes blue!. This is part of the Municipality, you can see it was painted in blue just this side because people didn't want change red color, a colonial red.

Ray

First time I see two alive rays, this little girl was selling them for three soles (1USD aprox) each one. Thi scene wasn't so nice, It's always terrible to see animals near to the death.

and... St. Peter's Day #3

Finally, fishers in their "caballitos" sail with the boat where "St. Peter" is.

St. Peter's Day #2

Prossecion along to the beach finish in this big "caballito de totora", St. Peter statue was taken to this boat for sailing with the fishers.

St. Peter's Day #1

Today is St. Peter's Day and a special date for fishers on the peruvian coast. Huanchaco was the perfect place for this celebration, local fishers made one big "caballito de totora" which was taken by some soldiers while fishers took St. Peter Statue on prossecion from the Huanchaco Church, they make this big boat just for this day, every year. People was waiting for "St. Peter" two hours.

Moche Ceramics

If you go to Moche (15 minutes from Trujillo City), you'll see peolpe sell ceramics and little artcraft, some of these ceramics is own of moche style, almost identical to ceramic found in "Huaca de la Luna". My prefer is this duck, "warrior duck"!, the original ceramic was found in the tumb of importat people.

Post number... 200!

Just follow the way... ^^

My post number 200, a nice moment to think in shine days, wheather in Trujillo is totally different in comparisson to another years. But, you can find sunchine places around of the city.

light ball

I liked so much this lamp. A nice handycraft :)

A colonial view

Another way to show a colonial window of Trujillo.

Artist at home

Well, my husband was sick, when he feels bad, he likes to paint. I like his works, sometimes I'd prefer he do only this kind of works... the picture on the first pic is my favorite!

one for each one

I know, it's too much for one person, but here, we eat a lot, I think :S ...I was in Magdalena de Cao, very near to Trujillo, these days are very cold and this dish is perfect for getting warm. "Sudado de pescado" is very typical in the peruvian coast, there are many ways to cook it, in this case, it has crabs, but it always is prepared with tomatoes onions, a little of garlic, some spicy ingredients... and, of course, fresh fish ^^

Balcony Detail

This nice wood balcony belongs to a hotel, which is very important for its age and for the ubication, I think this hotel has the most beautibul and care balconies.

Reflects...!

Reflects on the city

Looking around...

I visited to some farmers in Laredo, I like to see the people working at the country side, it's a quiet live instead of a lot of problems for them, who work very hard all the day.

taking air...

It isn't common to see adult people in this balcony, which is part of a school... this man was quiet for along time, maybe remembering his childhood or maybe waiting for someone.

A color detail

Two colors characteristic of the Trujillo downtown.

Casa Urquiaga Calonge

Casa Urquiaga Calonge is an historic house, very important for Trujillo. Simon Bolivar was here during the Independence War, you can still finf his beautiful wood desk inside. It's a beautiful exponent of the neoclassical architecture characteristic in the middle of the 19th century. This house now is the office to the Reserve Central Bank (BCR) and to the Police.

...for Annie: I was asking why the windows are so ample and excel, between many answers of architecture I found that the windows were the place where people used to sit to the edge having observed the street, moreover, when windows excel of the house they let peolple to watch the flanks and to see who were outside. ^^

Corpus Christi 2

...and there were a lot of designs of carpet of flowers ^^

Corpus Christi 1

Today, we celebrate Corpus Christi Day, a religious date for catholic people. Trujillo celebrates every year with a mass at Main Square, many schools participate too, they and some catholic groups make carpets of flower petals and sawdust, it's a patience work but very beautiful... tomorrow more pics :)

Casa del Pueblo

The "Casa del Pueblo" (People's House...something like this) is an historic house, it represents the home of a politician party, I think it's the oldest, however, its history was visited for persecution, corruption, deception... our president belongs to this politician party.

Rocoto relleno

"Rocoto relleno" is a typical dish form southern peruvian coast. Rocoto is a medium sized round chili pepper and it's very very hot (spicy), it's stuffed with spiced beek or pork, onions, olives, egg white and then cooked in the oven with potatoes covered with cheese and milk... would you like taste it?

A beauty house

This beauty house is a bank, these colors are tipical from colonial age

At the market

Everybody go to the market on weekend, some people go to the supermarket, where is so easy to buy, you find everything with the price, all it's perfect. Other people prefer to go to the another market (for example: Hermelinda Market) where trucks left the products recently, you can ask for few prices and find everything you want, but you must walk while some kids offer take your things.
ps: my scann is crazy today... these pics are scanned ^^